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Making key changes to your lifestyle can keep you looking younger and healthier.
We all know that being overweight, drinking too much, smoking and lack of exercise is going to have a bad affect on our health. And what affect do these factors have on our life expectancy?
It's a question that a research team from the National Institutes of Health and Human Services, and the National Cancer Institute have been looking to address by studying some of the factors that could have a bearing on the life expectancy of a woman, in either increasing or decreasing it.
The researchers said about the purpose of study that: "Our goal was to assess the relative strength and joint contributions of factors on the risk of death in postmenopausal women". They were specifically examining the factors that were affecting life expectancy, which could easily be adjusted by simple changes to diet or increasing exercise.
What are most important factors for a long life?
The study was large, consisting of almost 18,000 women, who had an average of 68.
The most significant risk factors that could easily be changed were: being unfit, smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight with a high concentration of fat around the abdomen.
How do you go about reducing this risk factors?
The study showed that fortunately, a few simple changes to your lifestyle can have a major impact on your overall health and life expectancy.
Including:
Start to exercise. Any type of exercise is good for health, even a simple 30 min daily walk has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety, reduce arthritic pain, reduce the progression of dementia and diabetes, reduce depression, and make you lose weight, which leads to the second point and third points.
Trim down and lose that stomach. The researchers pointed out that it was really important to lose the 'tummy fat', as studies have indicated that there's increased risk of heart disease in people carrying fat round their waist.
Maintaing a normal blood pressure, which can be done by exercise, balanced diet and not smoking.
Give up smoking. If you're a smoker, quitting is a major milestone in reducing the risks of cancers and heart disease.
From these four, smoking was highlighted as particularly detrimental to your health, causing 25% of the cancer deaths in women. The researchers went on to say: "The strong association of smoking with mortality is a critical reminder that smoking is the most important modifiable risk factor that physicians and society should address, even in older women." (Arch Intern Med 2006;2469-77)
We all know that being overweight, drinking too much, smoking and lack of exercise is going to have a bad affect on our health. And what affect do these factors have on our life expectancy?
It's a question that a research team from the National Institutes of Health and Human Services, and the National Cancer Institute have been looking to address by studying some of the factors that could have a bearing on the life expectancy of a woman, in either increasing or decreasing it.
The researchers said about the purpose of study that: "Our goal was to assess the relative strength and joint contributions of factors on the risk of death in postmenopausal women". They were specifically examining the factors that were affecting life expectancy, which could easily be adjusted by simple changes to diet or increasing exercise.
What are most important factors for a long life?
The study was large, consisting of almost 18,000 women, who had an average of 68.
The most significant risk factors that could easily be changed were: being unfit, smoking, high blood pressure and being overweight with a high concentration of fat around the abdomen.
How do you go about reducing this risk factors?
The study showed that fortunately, a few simple changes to your lifestyle can have a major impact on your overall health and life expectancy.
Including:
Start to exercise. Any type of exercise is good for health, even a simple 30 min daily walk has been shown to lower blood pressure, reduce anxiety, reduce arthritic pain, reduce the progression of dementia and diabetes, reduce depression, and make you lose weight, which leads to the second point and third points.
Trim down and lose that stomach. The researchers pointed out that it was really important to lose the 'tummy fat', as studies have indicated that there's increased risk of heart disease in people carrying fat round their waist.
Maintaing a normal blood pressure, which can be done by exercise, balanced diet and not smoking.
Give up smoking. If you're a smoker, quitting is a major milestone in reducing the risks of cancers and heart disease.
From these four, smoking was highlighted as particularly detrimental to your health, causing 25% of the cancer deaths in women. The researchers went on to say: "The strong association of smoking with mortality is a critical reminder that smoking is the most important modifiable risk factor that physicians and society should address, even in older women." (Arch Intern Med 2006;2469-77)
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